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t ~ & CARE TA nhac din don el drmaiinbal dn ee THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson AT MEN WITH AVA, 7 -4 IN_ A TOURNAMENT, r WITHOUT PENAL IP LIGHTNING ANSWER: Approximately 2,000,000,000. NEXT: What does a gopher carry in bls pockets? wis A FARM WIFE By Have you ever. tried putting a ~few hundred sparrows to bed? No?" Well, that's what I've been doing; and it's quite a job. You see it happened 'this way. Along one wall by our front door we have a vigorous growth of Vir- ginia creeper. Iwas years get--- ting a root well established and I longed so much to see it creep- ing up. the wall. And at last the creeper grew, and has continued growing for the last three or four years. But -alas, its dense growth has proved to be a regu- lar haven for all the sparrows in the neighborhood. One has only to step outside our front door and the birds fly out by the hun- ~ dred. Yes, I actually mean that-- fo say by the dozen, or the score, wouldn't describe the situation at all. And, oh dear, you never saw anything like the mess -- the steps, the window-sills and the creeper are absolutely plastered. I am cured for all time of any desire to have Virginia creeper growing over any wall of our house! * * . But yet I don't want to destroy it altogether--at least not yet-- so I thought I would see what thinning out the foliage would do. I elipped away gt" what I could reach and then got Part- ner's help for the high spots. That same evening I worked out in the garden in order to watch the birds' bedtime manoeu- ° They came back all right, . vres. but not in such large numbers. And then I fixed them. I armed SPINNER SUNSHADE Co which aced the nose of ,a German fiesserschmitt is good only for a sunshade Dow as R.AF. armorer . 'Striped spinrgr once earries the broken plane part _ Reross an arifield in Sicily. . CHATS TO WOMEN =" =~ & "But if I no "often found it so? myself, with a clothes prop and beat - the creeper with it each time the birds came back to roost. As long.as I stayed near the steps all they did was sit on the eaves- trough and watch for an oppor- tunity to fly to their hiding place, more than disap- peared around the corner of the house they were back again in full force." But I stayed around and finally the birds decided to spend the night in some nearby trees. So you see I really did put -the sparrows to bed. "es * * * Isn't it strange that so fre- quently what we have longed for proves such a disappointment when we get it? Haven't you We build up for years on something we want to get, or to do, and when our dream comes true we find it doesn't measure up at all to our expectations, For instance, we all know people so obsesséd with the idea of saving up for the future that they get no pleasure from living at all. In such cases _one of two things always happens --either the person dies while still working, or else he retires, only to find that hard work has become so much a part of his daily life that the time and abil- -ity for enjoying his. hard-won: leisure has long since passed. He has forgotten how to relax. The pity of it! One can imagine Puck looking on and chuckling to himself -- 'Lord, what fools these mortals be!" * * Ld Of course I do not mean that we should not save for the future --and at present there is no bet- ter 'way than to invest what we can save in Victory Bonds--but we should beware of getting so far into the woods that we can- not see the trees. There Is a happy medium in saving just as there is in spending. To deny ourselves a little pleasure for the sake of a mythical future is false economy--and it is not so "hard to find a8 might be sups posed. A weary farm-wife takes a day off to visit her new grand- child and comes back with a new zest for life; friend husband takes in a nearby auction sale and, in hob-nobbing with his .neighbors, realizes that his is not the only poor crop in the district. As for the homes where there are still small children, it. takes so little to make them happy, the dear wee souls, A little extra - attention from Mother --a new dress for a doll; a bright coat of paint on the wee boy's wagon and their world is bubbling over with joy and laughter. And then we have the radio for entertain- fment. No, it is not all "hot" music--there are programs there to inspire, amuse and delight all those who take the time and trou- ble to find them. - Of course we also want the latest war news but don't let us clutter up our minds by listening to every news broadcast there is--for that way madness lies, The word alligator comes from el legarto, the Spanish word for reptile, Three score years and ten, and still going, Yes sir, recently Dr. Lee de Forest, prominent pioneer of the early days of radio, having reached the extent of man's ap- pointed span of life, 1s still going who perhaps more than any other man, shared with Signor Marconi the honours of bringing radio broadcasting and 'reception to practieal fruition. His invention of the "audion" radio tube took early radlo reception out of the "Crys. tal" stage, and It is interesting to be reminded that, even after forty years of research, development and expansion in radio, the basic principles which Dr. Lee de For- est put to practical purpose in the early years of the century, still remain unchanged. Today, this vislonary pioneer of broadcasting is still plodding along In.his mod- ern laboratory of electronics, in. venting for Victory. L * L And this week again we stray along the "Come Back" paths. September, the "Golden" month brings many of the old familiar, much enjoyed volces back to your loud speaker. 10.30 p.m. last Tues- day wise-cracking Red Skelton hit the Blue Networks of the: N.B.C. Next' Tuesday, September 21st, 10 p.m. wil find popular Bob Hope back at the microphone, providing, ca safely and on time, from his recent trip overseas entertaining the troops. Eddle Cantor is scheduled for Wednesday; week September 29th, 9 p.m. pri * * . !"The Welra Circle", . . . the name itself 1s sort of creepy, and suggestive of thé spine tingling dramas of 'suspense, thrills and chills which delight s6 many lis- teners. From all accounts the new serles of "Weird Circle" broad- casts which commenced-on CFRB, Toronto a month ago, have arous- ed a lot of attention and. Interest. "It you enjoy bhalng shuddered into 4 ous tension batter give this Sun- day evening 10 to 10.30 broadcast a trembling ear. ' . . ~Incldentally In case you missed the volce of your Radio Reporter on the' CFRB Farm broadcast 12.16 to 12.30 last week, he Is now back on the regular schedule after hav- ing been away on one .of those susplclous wartime "secret" mls- slons . . . or maybe It was just a fishing trip. Who knows? Maybe some of you will say "Who cares?" By the way we pass two mlle- stones this month. The comple- tlon of eleven years of broadcast- ing the noon hour CFRB farm markets and agricultural commen- "casting of "Country News," Sun- day 2 o'clock. Both most enjoyable assignments. . . [1 Next week the C.B.C. Toronto staft will welcome, back to To- ronto, Andrew Allah, 'son of the late Rev. Willlam Allan, both ot schedules of the broadcasting strong. It was Dr. Lee de Forest ' that Is, he arrives home In Ameri." _complete bewilderment and nerv- - tary . . . and one year of broad- ~ whom were formerly prominent in' [RKDIO REPORTER ix ron CFRB. Andrew Allan has spent the last four years on the C.B.C. staff at Vancouver, B.C. He re- turns to Ontario's Queen City the last week In September to take charge of. dramatic production. The Rev. Wm. Allan lost his life by the sinking of the "Athenfa" four years ago. . . . The Royal Canadian Air Force has thought yp what we regard as a very happy idea. Recordings are being made of the voices ot Canadian flyers overseas telling ot their experiences, and the records are shipped to various radio sta- tlons across Canada for inclusion in_ special. programmes. The Sta- tion recelving the records advises the next of kin of the R.C.A.F. personnel, of the time of the broadcast in which they will be included. Next of kin can obtain a copy of the record, as broad- cast, at a nominal cost. It's a very laudable recognition of the fine service the boys are performing overseas. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON SEPTEMBER 26 ABIDING VALUES FROM "ISRAEL'S HISTORY Deuteronomy 1-3, 11 PRINTED TEXT, Deuteronomy 11:13-25 GOLDEN' TEXT -- Righteous. ness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people. Pro- verbs 14:34. Memory Verse: He hath made everything beautiful in its time. Ecclesiastes 3:11. THE LESSON IN iTS SETTING Time.--1406-5 B.C. : Place.--That part-of the Jor- dan Valley which was immedi- ately north of the Red Sea and' below the Dead Sea. Obedience To God' "And it shall come to pass, it ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I com- mand you this day, to love-Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy grain, and thy new wine, and thine oil, And T will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle, and thou shalt ¢at and be full." 3 'God is concerned with the phy- sical welfare, the material pros- perity, of His peqples; God does - not desire His owfi chgsen people to live in constant hatdship, nor any nation that: follows Him to have to suffer long years of pov- erty or famine. _What God first wants Is the heart to be yielded to Him, and then all the things that man can desire will God lovingly bestow. Warning About Idolatry "Take heed to yourselves, lest _ your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, Pipe-smoking "native gets alight from Australian tighting man, before setting gut to carry supplies to Allied eoldiers in a forward area of New Guinea's Wau-Mubo sector, i land EET WARRIOR OF DI EPPE Sirs AND KIS ; "a Cy 4 Under a hail of steel and fire, on the beaches of Dieppe, Lieut.-Col. Dollard Menard, D.S.0., officer KA 3 " commanding Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, fought gallantly, was wounded five times in as many hours, covered the re-gmbarkation of his men and fainted as he was carried back on a landing barge. Regain- ing consciousness he organized the anti-aireraft defense of the barge, lying flat on his back. In the recent invasion of Kiska by Canadian: and American troops Col. Menard commanded the Hull Regiment of Quebec. This drawing by Hubert Rogers, depictir in the National Film Board's "Men of Valor" series. ~y % ng the scenes of Dieppe appears on the latest poster 1 2 and worship theta: an'l the anger of Jchoval. be kindled against: you and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land wich Jehovah giveth you." The heatt is the citadel of the - whole- moral being, and so long - as it is kept for the Lovd, the 'enemy can gain no advantage; but when once it is surrendered, all is really yone--there is the turning aside -- other gods are served and worshipped. "Teach Thy Childrex" "Therefore shall ye lay up "these my words in your heart and in your soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, talking _of them, when thou sittest in thy house; and upon thy gates; that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the Mich Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth." B Obedience to the law of God does not come naturally to fallen man. Man's tendency is down- ward, not upward; away from - God, not toward God. Man must be continually reminded of the laws and commandments and will _of God, or else he will forget them ald live in disobedience to them. Therefore the Israclites are told that they should first lay up the words of the law of God -in their heart and in their soul, and then' bind them upon their hand and on their forchead between their eyes, = The Jews have literally fulfilled this, by binding in little boxes, on their arms and foreheads, written por- tions of the book of the law. What really is meant here is that whatever one does, and whatever one thinks, should be controlled by the law of God. It is not so important for us to have little pieces of paper nailed up on the , doorpost, on which the law is in- seribed, as it is for us to have a home recognized by those who enter it as belonging to the Lord. It is the home that is to be sancti- fied. Assurance Of Victory For if ye shall diligently. keep, |. "all "this" iis "Which I command you, to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; then will Jehovah drive out all "these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than your- selves. Every place whereon the sole of your foot shal tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, _and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border. There shall no man be able "to stand before you: Jehovah your "God shall lay the feareof you and the dread of you upon, all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hith spoken unto you." Here is a definite promise that no mat- ter how powerful fe iain of Canaan should be at the time of Isracl's entrance into the promised land, God would give the Israclites a sweeping victory over all of them if they would ; mandments, T 1 but continue to walk in_His com. When Israel was in obedience to God her victories were assured and continuous; when shel disobeyed God, either as a people or as individuals, defeat overtook her. greater illustration the tragedy that- occurred to Israel inher early days of ad- Vance into PaleStife was because 'of the sin of Achan (Josh. 7), and_the glorious victory that came "to her against the very same city than this, that ~"which had défeated her when this sin was put away (Josh, 8). 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